Of Light And Shadow Poem by grace mariner

You blinded me with your brightness
All consuming it pulled me from my hiding place and showed me what you saw that was never before seen.
I basked in your light, your heat.
It surged and raged, leaving me feel
lighter than air.
Not an easy task to take someone of
immense proportions and make them levitate.
But your shadow was equally as large as
you were my beloved giant.
I did not mind it's shade since that
fire blazed with such intensity.
But that shadow grew darker and grew larger the further you moved from me.
Like a looming dark angel it began to
dismantle me and keep me from your light.
And as your time grew short, so your
shadow began to suffocate me.
It used my own tragedy, blindly revealed
in that warm light, to destroy me.
Oh the foolishness and folly that exists
in a blind and trusting heart!
It summons the darkness as only in that
absence of light can we see most clear
And in those final moments, a heartache
is born that sends it's owner back
into hiding.
But it is too late revealed and recognized.
The cancer has spread, the seroconversion
complete, the heart, and the spirit
broken.
But the mind is a jester.
A trickster who forces us to remember what
is lost,
and makes us crave it all the more,
even while crouching in the shadows.